What this book covers

Chapter 1, Exploring Virtualization, teaches you different virtualization levels, challenges with each type of virtualization, containers as a virtualization platform, and benefits of running containerized applications, tooling support, other container platforms available in market today.

Chapter 2, Deploying First Container, teaches you to set up development environment, understand the Docker terminology, installing images from Docker Hub, create custom windows container images using Docker CLI and authoring Dockerfile.

Chapter 3, Working with Container Images, will introduce you to common container management tasks such as listing the containers, start/stop, cleaning up unused containers or images using Docker CLI on Windows Server environment.

Chapter 4, Developing Container Applications, teaches you to create and deploy ASP.NET Core Web applications using Visual Studio 2015, .NET Core, and C# to Windows Server 2016 Core as Windows Container using PowerShell and Docker CLI.

Chapter 5, Deploying Container Applications, teaches you to create Windows Server Container environment on Azure using Azure Resource Manager templates and Azure PowerShell, configure remote management for container hosts, deploy container applications remotely as Windows Containers and Hyper-V containers, configuring software load balancer and so on.

Chapter 6, Storage Volumes, talks about building file based storage based containers using Docker volumes and relational database containers using Microsoft SQL Server.

Chapter 7, Redis Cache Containers, teaches you to create persistent Redis Cache containers using Redis and storage volumes.

Chapter 8, Container Network, introduces you to Windows Container networks, different networking modes, building custom container networks using different networking modes and deploying containers on custom networks.

Chapter 9, Continuous Integration and Delivery, teaches you to build continuous integration and deployment pipelines for container applications using Visual Studio Team Services (TFS Online) on Azure, Docker Hub, and Git. You will learn to create a create a custom build server for building, packaging and releasing containers to windows container hosts.

Chapter 10, Manage Resource Allocation and REST API, teaches you to manage container resource utilization, create and manage containers using Docker REST API via Postman and C#, image optimization strategies and monitoring options available for containers and container hosts.

Chapter 11, Composite Containers and Clustering, teaches you to orchestrate multiple container deployments using Docker Compose, set up scaling for multicontainer environments and authoring Docker Compose service definition. Also, you will learn the concepts of cluster management using Docker Swarm and Azure Container Service.

Chapter 12, Nano Server, serves as an introduction to Windows Nano Server, building custom Nano Server images using PowerShell, deploying containers on Nano Server, working with Nano containers, and configuring Nano Server using PowerShell DSC.